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It was great to get to know these students better and see in my heart a desire to be a priest in the lives of these students. I saw that I could be a spiritual father for them.

Living amidst this constant Marian environment that the seminary fosters has been and continues to be a great blessing.

We are extremely blessed and thankful to be built up by the strong familial brotherhood here at St. John Paul II Seminary.

We enter the quiet darkness of the night with the light of Christian hope.

As a husband and wife withhold nothing from each other, I want to give everything over to the Lord in fidelity to him.

The Lord is present in the real people around us, and that is where he invites us into relationship with Himself.

What kept me going on the bike was not the desire to say that I had completed the ride, but the feeling of gratitude for being in God’s creation.

For Karol, it became clear that the events of time can only be seen through the lens of eternity and time’s longing for fulfillment in Eternal Life.

Being a sacristan has helped me enter into the reality of what is really happening on the altar during Mass: the re-presentation of the Crucified Christ on Calvary.

Fighting with great discipline to win a perishable crown in track and field formed the foundation for Anthony to dedicate his life to the Lord and follow Him to the achievement of an imperishable crown of glory in Heaven.

The Holy Spirit wants to use my humiliations, my faults, and my weaknesses to form me into the man that I was created to become.

The aligning of Popes, Saints and Memories

My song of praise is the song that God himself sings; my life is a thread that he weaves into a worthy tapestry.

There is joyful anticipation at the seminary during Holy week, joy rooted in the paradox of the cross.

Jesus will be rejected by many, but this first, deeply personal rejection from Judas must have been one of his most hurtful wounds.

A seminary pilgrimage to Poland brought us to where the seeds of St. John Paul II's faith were planted. None were greater than those sewn by Emilia and Karol Wojtyla.

The Church lives out its mission when she encounters those on the peripheries. In those encounters, we can make a gift of ourselves to others.

As an only child, going from 0 to 49 brothers was incredibly daunting. But I knew from the first minute that I could turn to them for anything. 

Sanctity can seem unattainable. Thankfully, Christ gave us a roadmap: unite our lives to His.

Silence and fraternity seem like a contradiction, but the Lord showed me how one is ordered towards the other.